$5 Hip hop Beats Why not?

Okay real deal.  If someone is trying to sell you a $5 dollar beat, ask yourself why?  Either they know it aint worth shit, or they don't have confidence in themselves or their craft.  I remember when we started on beats and production way back.  Nobody used stolen software, people bought that shit.  Nobody even leased beats like they do now.  Nobody ever , and I mean ever gave them away.  You know what?  Every studio you went to back then, had at least one producer that was real hot shit.  We had a small studio in a large complex full of top notch spots.  Every night we'd be rollin up into a new one and be like dam......  Those of you in the Chi, will know what the Riverfront art center is.  Some of the best studios and producers from all over the city were in there back then.  Verifiable fact.  That's where we cut our teeth and learned our craft and it was hard to be around so many talented producers, but they were real, and spit real game, and had real connections.  We was lucky enough to fall in with the hottest two producers in that spot back then.  The business use to be tight like that.  Not just anyone could get in or get education on it.  Nowadayz with all these five dollar beats around, kits and whack pc producers, shit has just went south.  It is what it is.  I'm not trying to change that, but as I've said before $5-10 beats are a suckers game.  A $5 dollar rock, is just an overpriced rock after all.  Convenience store beats is all they amount to.  I don't care how talented you might be, unless you invest some real cake in those beatz, you are just wasting your money and time.  Get with real producers that you actually respect.  Get in a studio that has real gear and with an engineer who knows how to use it.  It makes all the difference.  By surrounding yourself with a higher caliber of people, you elevate yourself to another level.  If you spin you wheels near the bottom of the game, and never invest in yourself, you are going nowhere fast.  Don't count on luck, or listen to low ball beat makerz' bullshit.  Ask anyone 'Real with it' in the industry and they will tel, you that unless you do whatever you can to invest in your rise to fame, or wherever you want to go, you won't make it.  Two years from now you'll still be right where you are because you tried to keep taking the cheap, and easy way.  Always lookin for that shortcut.  Quit trying to game the industry and the fans.  Secret...It doesn't work.  You are only runnin game on yourself, along with a million other stupid mofo's doin the same and getting nowhere.  Get real on it, and do something you haven't done before.  Get a clear vision of not only what you want, but also of who and what you are as an artist.  Until you do, you will just keep runnin in place.  Eventually this will just burn you out, cause you heartache, and probably push you out of the game.  We hate to see talent leave the game, that's why we tell you this.  It don't go to be our beats.  They are not for everyone.  What we are saying is that there are various levels of producers out there, and most are very good at what they do.  Aside from these working pros you have the beat makers.  They are not producers, they make and sell cheap beatz to as many people as they can in a cookie cutter fashion.  They don't care who uses them or why.  They only care about grabbing your change and then on to the next cat dumb enough to believe their hype.  Don't mess about!  Get on some real shit and make real music that's really you!  All successful artists you admire have a very, very clear vision or what and who they are as artists.  They don't follow or copy, anyone, period.    Much Love!